That was the only reason left to use Audirvana, but I am afraid that with Spotify, Apple and Amazon entering the High-Res market, Qobuz and Tidal will have a tough time - just head that Jay-Z already sold his shares in Tidal.
Yeah fair point. Hopefully Qobuz decides to differentiate itself by fixing upnp.
Tidal, Amazon, Apple, Spotify donāt support it at all.
Spotify has Spotify Connect. Will be interesting to see if those devices will play their hi res out of the box.
But it seems to me not, since the Apple Music player itself sounds much worse than Audirvana.
I listened to my local files through Apple Music and with such digital tiresome sound, I had no desire to pay for a subscription, be it Hi-Res or something else.
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Itās a forum that admins donāt read, I donāt know why weāre writing. Leave the forum right now.
Damien personally replies to many forum posts.
In that case you might be a happy Audirvana Studio customer 
I cannot hear such a big difference between the same CD ripped to ALAC on Audirvana and Apple Music, what might result from the DAC (Meridian Explorer) and headphone (Beyerdynamic DT880 and B&W P7W) I am using on my MacBook Pro. When listening with my Naim Uniti Nova my experience is that Qobuz streaming High-Res FLAC directly and controlled through the Naim app sounds best - and surprisingly even better than converted to PCM by Audirvana and streamed with UPnP. Never really compared that to Apple Music with AirPlay because I assumed the difference comes from lossy AAC vs High-Res FLAC / ALAC. However, I will compare when Apple starts lossless High-Res next month.
You donāt hear the difference because your system is not of a very high level. The higher this level is, the more obvious the difference will be.
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Just as I said. Thatās why I was planning to invest in a better headphone 
and not in another subscription service.
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It is a fine point to analyse the sound of files from one system/download/player to another. My mood will influence just as my hunger or satiety and other sensuous things going on in my lifeā¦
will make all the difference.When the dog destroys my best socks (sox) I am less inclined to wowed ed by any musicā¦ unless itās Mahler of course.
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@Antoine @Damien2 and whatever other Damiens or others like @RunHomeSlow @Jud etc
I need help PLEASE
I clicked my A+3.5ā¦ app on my Mac mini and was told NO License Key was available for this accountāI have had all versions of Audirvana since 2013 or 2016 now gone
I went through all my paperwork couldnāt find my key# then someone on AudioPhileStyle suggested I go to the web site that I bought latest upgrade from for 75$ got that key# tried to put it into the box that asked for my license key (25 numbers letters) hit register and nothing happened
@Antoine @Damien2 etc you sent me my current key# sometime ago please resend it
AND what happened to ALL my self made playlists all my TIDAL&Qobuz self made playlists and my iTunes library(which disappeared into some mysterious APPLE file when I upgraded to Catalina)?
I was waiting to change to STUDIO BUT how will you know I am a current up to date A+3.5 user and WILL I GET EVERYTHING BACK I HAD???
I LOVE AUDIRVANA BETTER THAN MY ROON
Someone please help me and why this happened PLEASE !!
bobbmd
I suggest you send an e-mail directly to:
Here your cry for help only gets buried between a lot of other posts, with no guarantee that Audirvana support will read it.
I completely agree with this post. Iāve learned to manage the quirkiness of the interface, and the sound quality is fine. Only if the new Studio will deliver distinguishable improvement in SQ that would be a reason to consider a change.
Hello @bobbmd,
Please send a mail to [email protected] about your issue, we will send your license key by mail so you will be able to retrieve it easily.
There have been a lot of post in the forum lately and we try to see as much as message as possible and respond to them as much as possible.
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They should be available in the Qobuz and Tidal apps.
The iTunes library has been moved to the Apple Cloud, where it can be accessed by the Apple Music apps and downloaded to the local computer - album by album.
@Joamato thanks for tooth infos but I know those playlists are on my Qobuz and TIDAL apps will they ALL transfer if I get STUDIO? And basically why did this all of a sudden happen to apparently just me?
Second thanks for that info on iTunes Library Apple itself never told me that nor did that sarcastic sanctimonious guy on ComputerAudiophile/Audiophile Style on the thread ā iTunes& everything else Appleā all he did was ridicule me and make fun of my query.
Thanks again bobbmd
if you connect your Qobuz and Tidal account, you will see them in Studio automatically in the playlist manager:
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As far as I remember, I agreed to Cloud sync when Apple promised to improve the sound quality of ripped music by exchanging them against better quality AAC versions. The next step was with Catalina when Apple exchanged iTunes with Apple Music and moved the library to the Cloud. I noticed it only because of the missing integration with Audirvana and saved my old library from backup to my NAS, but never really used it anymore after a family subscription to Apple Music and a personal HiRes subscription to Qobuz.